Shared Belief, the champion 2-year-old male of 2013, worked five furlongs in 1:00.80 on Tuesday at Golden Gate Fields, moving closer to a highly anticipated showdown with California Chrome in the $500,000 San Antonio Stakes on Feb. 7.
Mike Welsch's horses to watch at Gulfstream Park for the week of Jan. 14.
What a difference almost a week makes. Six days after the Busanda Stakes was carded with six 3-year-old fillies, the rescheduled edition of the $100,000 stakes will go with a field of nine when it highlights Friday’s nine-race program at Aqueduct. The race was postponed when last Saturday’s card was scrapped due to weather and safety concerns.
Carve will be making his first start since the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile on Friday, when he returns to one of his favorite tracks for the $100,000 Fifth Season at Oaklawn Park. The 1 1/16-mile race begins the local road to the Grade 2, $600,000 Oaklawn Handicap on April 11.
Thegirlinthatsong, a 4-year-old filly trained by Jerry Hollendorfer, has enhanced her reputation as she moves farther west.
Chad Brown said he’d be wearing his tuxedo, just in case. As a first-time finalist for outstanding trainer, Brown figures it’s best to put a good foot forward Saturday night at Gulfstream Park when the industry convenes for the Eclipse Awards Dinner, advertised as black tie optional at $400 a pop.
The 4-year-old filly Fascinating has always been held in high regard. Fascinating, trained by Hall of Famer Bob Baffert, was a $1.3 million yearling purchase in 2012, the same year her half-brother Bodemeister won the Arkansas Derby and was second in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes.
Live racing was canceled Wednesday at Aqueduct due to frozen clods of dirt on the inner track, New York Racing Association officials said.
Derick Giwner's analysis of the Thursday 1/15 card at The Meadowlands.
